President Barack Obama the Projected Winner, Earns Second Term

(NEW YORK) — President Obama won a second term Tuesday night as ABC News projects he will be re-elected, emerging victorious in what had been a deadlocked race into the final hours of the campaign.

Obama’s lease on the White House was renewed with a crucial victory in Ohio. The president has so far collected 281 electoral votes to Mitt Romney’s 203. The candidates needed 270 to win the presidency.

A few minutes later: “We’re all in this together. That’s how we campaigned, and that’s who we are. Thank you. – bo.”

And finally along with a photo of him and Michelle Obama: “Four more years.” That last tweet is now his most retweeted tweet and one of the most retweeted tweets ever. Just 40 minutes after posting it, it had 308,705 retweets.